Posted on 12/18/2001 1:10:21 AM PST by grimalkin
At the risk of tooting my own horn, or at least the horn of the company I work for, click here.
Remember that in much or most of the Muslim world slavery is still very much in fashion, and BTW what religion do you think the slave traders were who sold the ancestors of our African-Americans to the sea captains and pirates who brought them over to the New World?
PS I will give you a hint, it was not Jewish or Christian.
But can you tell me if the systems your company produces can power a city of say 75,000 population? What's the re-charge time on an exhausted NiMH battery and does it develope 'power level memory' if discharged too much? What would be the cost of attaching the system to a power transmission or distribution grid? Would a thryristor station be necessary for conversion to AC? Could the stored DC power be successfully stepped-up to match the voltage level of the grid. How about synchronization?
Like I said, intentions are fine, but do we want to invest scads of cash in someone's intention.
Still, I commend you and your endeavours.
The Koran must make an exception on how one treats servants.
Princess Buniah al-Saud, the niece of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, was being held without bond at the Orange County Jail for beating Memet Ismiyati, her Indonesian maid.
The princess could receive 15 years in prison if convicted of the second-degree felony.
Neighbors called 911 Friday after Ismiyati, 36, ran crying from the apartment she shared with the princess in Orange County. She told deputies al-Saud beat her, hit her head against a wall and pushed her down a flight of stairs, leaving her unable to walk.
She spent Friday night in a local hospital's emergency room after the alleged attack. She claimed that Buniah Al-Saud beat her, hit her head against a wall, and pushed her down a flight of stairs at the Hunter's Creek apartment that they shared for 10 months.
"She started beating me. She punched my head and pushed me down the stairs. She's been beating me for the longest time, and I don't like it," the victim said.
"When we talked to her (Ismiyati) through an Indonesian interpreter and saw the extent of her injuries, we upgraded the charges to a felony,'' said Orange County's Undersheriff Malone Stewart.
Ismiyati was treated and released from a local hospital.
The Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C., said the princess had diplomatic immunity. But the Immigration and Naturalization Service said al-Saud, 41, did not tell them of her travel plans, stripping her of diplomatic immunity.
Stewart said State Department officials want to talk to al-Saud.
"It doesn't matter who she's related to,'' he said. "This lady is not here lawfully.''
Al-Saud was confronted by WKMG Local 6 News reporter Tony Pipitone hours before the arrest and he asked her what happened to Ismiyati. "You can ask her," she replied.
"The princess would yell at me, and say she's 'Al-Saud,' and I was under her feet, that she can do anything to me here. She said, 'I can kill you and nothing would happen to me,'" Memet said.
A sheriff's deputy said it would take a high-level crime, like murder, to even detain someone invoking diplomatic immunity. But for an investigation of a misdemeanor battery case, the individual would not be prosecuted.
This isn't the first time a Saudi Arabian princess was caught in a diplomatic bind in Orange County.
In 1995, another Saudi princess, Princess Maha al-Sudairi, wife of the heir to the throne, was accused of beating a servant in Orange County who stole $200,000 from her. Four off-duty Orange County sheriff's deputies were disciplined for mishandling the incident.
I think the point about her gay friend was that he would have insight into things which the average (non-gay) male would not.
And I think the comment about the arab males being gay would be homosexual in the predatory (won't take no for an answer if you're a male who is young and cute) sense.
The thought that the Saudis, even in America, are above American law because we need them for our oil really bothers me.
The thought that they fund Al Queda, but are not going to be dealt with because we need them for the oil bothers me a lot more.
Nice to see the royals getting equal treatment with the rest of us poor folks.
Deport the b!tch, and give the maid a job at the hotel.
And you are assuming they care about women because....?
Asian (in the British sense, ie Indian Subcontinent) domestics prefer to work for English employers, because they treat them like human beings rather than slaves.
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